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I moved into this community a few years ago, now trying after years of fighting to get out. The only way I can leave is stand up and fight. I was stunned and outraged not only for myself but there with other gals who lost their homes, pets and dignity. Frightened to leave their homes, finally driven out. Pretty sad when one nice gal, who also moved into this community a few years (before me) has to hide her car and come in after dark to talkin my home. Afraid she will be put in jail on bogus charges,she like me has been fighting for her home,land and her life. Her story is frightening too.Another gal home was burned to the ground and her beloved pet perished while she was at work. Afraid she moved what she could salvage without telling a soul. The local government was kin to the person who threatened,burned her home. She stood up also to the corruption. We believed in the system of justice, but this no longer exists. In my research, you’d be surprised at the names that pop up. Connect the dots and I see why they will do anything to protect themselves. We’ve had a taste of what can happen, we spent two years battling in the courts. I’ve been threatened, harassed, stalked, ran off the road. My husband has been taken to court while trying to protect me. Its “Annie get your Gun” Course, I was told if the intruder broke into my home assaulted me,I would be the one in prison,and to be sure and drive by and check it out before I make that decison (Our lawyer we hired) Left a bad taste in my mouth to think I paid for this advise. Leaves you absolutely speechless and alone knowing they are all intertwined. I do believe that corruption rules and now is considered the norm. You want to talk Bush, have I got another story.You can talk all you want how good or bad, but when it comes to facts you can’t hide, you can holler all you want,but it still comes down to “what are we going to do about it.” Who will take the step and the heat from”men in black hats”

By Freida Rowland on 07/13/2009 11:20 am

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Who and what is this C street and why are political representatives living in these accommodations. Seems a bit suspect to me.

By S G on 07/13/2009 12:19 pm

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You’ve got to be kidding right? How many trust worthy politicians do you know? Read the headlines. Then do your homework on the facts or fiction. I can prove everything I say, recordings, even video. Until someone speaks out nothing will be done.I consider myself a decent gal, good friends, until one day the bottom falls out of your world. You make choices, and try your darnest to stick to them . The other gals have proof. We are united through our experiences. Like I said until someone listens you are considered a rebel . I’d rather be considered a rebel than for another person to lose their home to violence and do nothing. I cannot sit on the sidelines, If you could see the fear and live it you would be glad someone cared enough to speak out on our behalf. Someone believed in you. When you believed in justice, felt truth prevailed and this happens? Changes your whole outlook on life. I’m going to keep finding platforms to tell our stories. So many stories what is really happening and then their are the skeptics. I was a few years ago,but no longer. Voices need to be heard.I’ve experienced corruption first hand until it makes me question, If I pursue and I willing to give up what little I have left? To live a quiet,cozy protected world with the “Cinderella syndrome ideals” doesn’t no longer exist in this gal.

By Freida Rowland on 07/13/2009 12:51 pm

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Maybe you have contacted them, but Freida what about the ACLU? If not in your town maybe you could try an hour or so away . They might be able to help.

By S G on 07/13/2009 1:25 pm

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I’ll tell you what’s really disturbing in the news today is the unrelenting fear agenda around the swine flu . Check out this 60 minutes news cast . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mHH2s—W7s

So many reports of this even still and yet they still press on. We really need to listen quietly to our own gut feelings about these things before we jump the gun and do something we will later regret for the rest of our lives. Buyers beware.

By Kagan K on 07/13/2009 1:17 pm

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I am interested in knowing why the government agency that oversees AmeriCorps, has refused to answer questions from congressional investigators about the White House’s role in events surrounding the abrupt firing of inspector general Gerald Walpin.

By Diamond In The Rough on 07/13/2009 2:50 pm

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That’s a great one Diamond…wow did that get swept under the rug mighty fast…also, how about those missing pages that were pulled from the EPA report before it was sent to the Congress before voting on cap and tax???? Isn’t it interesting how all the juice is pulled out of the media, or not ever reported by the media. Kind of like dismissing the black panthers charges for trying to interrupt voters at the polls with billy clubs….or maybe acorn….now there is a can of worms that needs to be opened very wide!!!

By Libra Lady on 07/13/2009 3:19 pm

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Michelle Malkin IG-Gate: Still smoldering By Michelle Malkin • July 14, 2009 09:56 AM

Stacy McCain updates the story that the Obama administration wants to go away:

“We’re not there yet,” one Democratic source on Capitol Hill said last week, when asked about the prospect for hearings on the Obama administration’s firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin. Congressional investigators are still conducting interviews in the case, so the question of whether to “pull the trigger” on a full-blown inquiry — with subpoenas for witnesses to testify under oath at committee hearings — has yet to be decided.

The fact that both Democrats and Republicans are involved in investigating the Walpin dismissal is, however, highly significant. With Democrats controlling both houses of Congress, bipartisanship is absolutely necessary to getting the truth about the AmeriCorps case, as with the other cases in the smoldering “IG Gate” scandal. (MM)

By Libra Lady on 07/14/2009 9:52 am

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News we all want to act on, now! http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://thomas.loc.gov…

By C jay on 07/13/2009 10:31 pm

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TODAY’S NEWS (real stuff!)

Hi, all:

Great news! This weekend millions of Americans learned about the dangers of RFID in driver’s licenses and other identity documents, thanks to a major story by the Associated Press.

Here is a link to the article:

"Chips in official IDs raise privacy fears"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/12/AR2009071200705.html

The article is a lengthy, in-depth investigation of RFID in driver’s
licenses and passports by AP reporter Todd Lewan, the same tenacious
investigator who broke the story about implanted microchips causing
cancer a few years back.

Please take the time to read the article in its entirety. It clearly
indicts the poor security on so-called "Enhanced Drivers Licenses" or
EDLs, the border-crossing ID cards that have now been issued to nearly
200,000 Americans.

As I wrote in Scientific American last fall, EDL’s contain RFID tags
that can be read from 30-feet away by the government, marketers,
criminals, and anyone else with an off-the-shelf reader — right through
a person’s pocket, backpack, or purse. They can be used to track
individuals, identify them for marketing purposes, or infringe their
right to anonymously assemble and speak out against injustice.

My article can be found here:

"How RFID Tags Could Be Used to Track Unsuspecting People"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-rfid-tags-could-be-used

Todd Lewan’s article cites many pro-liberty folks, including Mark Lerner
of the Stop REAL-ID Coalition, Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF), Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC), security researcher Chris Paget, and yours truly.

I was thrilled to see the article appear on the Drudge Report, The New
York Times, The Chicago Tribune, the San Jose Mercury News, the Los
Angeles Times, Fox News, Yahoo.com, and over 450 other newspapers and media outlets.

While EDL’s are bad news, the good news is that the word is getting out.
Please help us spread it even further by posting a link to the article
on your website, blog, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg accounts and
everywhere else.

In freedom,
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.
Founder and Director, CASPIAN Consumer Privacy

By C jay on 07/13/2009 11:09 pm

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Bravo C jay thanks for the info:)

By S G on 07/14/2009 7:27 am

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Scary isn’t it, C Jay. Some of us have been hearing about this agenda for some time now. It used to be considered one of those conspiracy stories that no one took seriously. It takes living in "transparency" into a whole new level. As an Astrologer I saw this coming with transiting Pluto now in Capricorn for the next 16 years, (for those who believe in this science. Not everybody does ..I understand) For a private person like myself this is like ripping the clothes right off of my back. We can now see through walls with technology and see what shoes a person is wearing from a satelite. I got annoyed just seeing all that I have written here on WowOwow on Google. Oh, well……it is what it is. We all live in glass houses today. Interesting times we live in….n’est pas?

By Kagan K on 07/14/2009 10:18 pm

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Google - the bane of my existence. When I read the EULA on sites, and Google, and Twitter (which states everything you put into Twitter goes to Google), I’m sick. Time to renew membership in ACLU.

Yes, and you are correct about the RDIF TAGS being in our shoes, every thing we buy, to track our travels and purchases around the globe. Katherine’s done a fabulous job, while at Harvard, and still is doing so. She is also with the new search engine (www.ixquick.com) that, honorably no less, does not track IP addresses, and their new browser provides the same security as we ‘travel’ on the Internet. She came to Texas recently when we asked her to help us stop the mandatory ‘chipping’ of pets - meeting with many of us in Central Texas, and the movement there was halted.

Kathrine has a list of the products, and stores that put the chips in our merchandise, and I avoid them like the plague. People get so caught up in their careers in such marketing and pr areas they forget they are human, and certainly forget what is humanist (eg read the Humanist Manifesto I and II!).

There are so many more things happening in our lives the past 9 years that we now have to stop, bothering about idiotic congress people is now boring.

By C jay on 07/14/2009 11:13 pm

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I would really like to know Katherines list of products with chips! Good work, that. To think that some people actually like the idea of having their animals chipped is abit scary……next it’s our kids….then us. The fear agenda of the swine flu is also on their list to control the masses. Did you see the 60 minutes show on that?

We really have to be fully awake these days. No time for sleepwalking.

Say, do you ever have problems not getting emails that have been sent to you? Those are read and kept away from us from time to time. I have a friend who had a thousand emails kept from him. Who knows why. Quite amazing, all of it, not to mention, annoying. Not good to depend on emails, folks. Big lesson for me. Well, you know what? We have to get used to it…but don’t get me wrong, that does not mean being a ‘victim’.

Like the song goes in the musical "Chicago"; "Cellophane, they call me cellophane, I’m going to change my name to Ms. Cellophane, cause’ you can see right through me, walk right by me, and never know I’m there!!

By Kagan K on 07/15/2009 1:48 am